Christmas Goodies

Tonight I'm headed to a cookie exchange with the ladies from my Bible study.

I would love to bring the sweetest thing I've made this year. (Raspberries included!)

But I'm not sure there's enough of him to go around!

So, instead, I'm taking THIS.

Is your mouth watering yet?

I found this recipe and lots of other great ideas over at The Idea Room. Check it out if you haven't already!

Cabin Fever

For a variety of reasons, we've barely left the house this week. Needless to say, I've been working hard to keep my little "big boy" busy. (More on that later, when I'm not so tired!)

Today, we made popcorn chains to hang on a tree in our backyard for birds and squirrels to eat. (Do they even come out when it's this cold?) From the minute I told Tanner we were going to make them, he wouldn't stop talking about them. "Popcorn chains, Mommy! Popcorn chains!!" He was very eager as we got started and did a great job with the threading. My chain turned out to be about 4 feet long. Check out Tanner's.

He got a little sidetracked, what with the big bowl of buttery popcorn and all. There are about 15 kernels on his string, but more like 150 in his little belly. Ha! (Just like Mommy!)

And don't worry ... we cleaned up the mess before this guy could eat any!

He's been rather cranky these days, and we don't serve popcorn to SCROOGES around here. (or babies for that matter!)

For Grammy and Uncle Pat

I thought you might enjoy this. Pay special attention to the mohawk styling at the end.

Happy December!

We're still here! Just having some trouble with our internet.

Thanksgiving was fantastic. We got to meet sweet little McKenna (our niece!) for the very first time.

My parents are slowly healing.


The boys are doing well.

Landon has two teeth. He's pulling himself up to standing now. I'm pretty sure if I measured it out, he would have crawled at least 3 miles each day. He's constantly on the move. Even in the bathtub, he does laps -- and laughs the whole time. It's all pretty entertaining. He's still working on sleeping through the night and has made it all the way from 7pm to 5am about 4 times now. And did I mention that he's the sweetest thing ever? Because he IS.

Tanner is talking up a storm these days. He's very excited about all of the Christmas decorations up everywhere. Each morning he looks down from the top of the stairs and yells "My Christmas, Mommy! My Christmas!" as he points to the tree. I tried to explain to him this morning that we celebrate Christmas because it is Jesus' birthday, but then he got upset because he can't stand to celebrate any birthday but his own. I'm pretty certain he cried tears when we sang "happy birthday" to Poppy last month. We'll have to work on that ... He's also very into locking doors right now. And he reminded me once again last night to NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER leave your child bare-bottomed after his bath. I can't wait until he's house-broken ... errr ... potty-trained.

We ask him everyday whether he's on Santa's naughty or nice list and he always says "naughty." It's a good thing we have this guy to report each day's activity to Santa. This morning he showed up for the first time ever. I wonder where we'll find him tomorrow ??